Discover
something daily that makes you happy and become witness to your life
transforming. |
Our lives are rich with potential sources of happiness, but
sometimes we become victims of negative thinking because we believe that
focusing on all that has gone wrong will provide us with the motivation we
need to face the challenges of survival. When we choose to focus on what
makes us happy, however, a shift occurs in the fabric of our existence.
Finding something to be happy about every single day can help this shift take
place. The vantage points from which we view the world are brought into
balance, and we can see that being alive truly is a gift to be savored. There
is always something we can be happy about—it is simply up to us to identify
it. On one day, we may find happiness in a momentous,
life-changing event such as a marriage or the birth of a child. On another
day, the happiness we experience may be a product of our appreciation of a
particularly well-brewed cup of a tea or the way the sun shines on a leaf. If
we discover that we literally cannot call to mind a single joyful element of
existence, we should examine the cause of the blockage standing between us
and experiencing happiness. Keeping a happiness journal is a wonderful way to
catalog the happiness unfolding all around us so that joy has myriad
opportunities to manifest itself in our lives. Writing about the emotions we
experience while contemplating joy may give us insight into the factors
compelling us to resist it. Happiness may not always come
easily into your life. You have likely been conditioned to believe that the
proper response to unmet expectations is one of sadness, anger, guilt, or
fear. To make joy a fixture in your existence, you must first accept that it
is within your power to choose happiness over unhappiness every single day.
Then, each time you discover some new source of happiness, the notion that
the world is a happy place will find its way more deeply into your heart. On
this day, find one thing to be happy about and let it fill your heart. |
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